Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 11
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them. I was trained in Marine infantry tactics. I
was in the 6th Marines there in San Diego. When I
left boot camp, I had been assigned to Company B,
1st Battalion, 6th Marines. We trained as regular
infantry in those days, of course, giving emphasis
to the amphibious maneuver and developing that
capability. We were confident, and to see all these
little fellows running around with all their yelling
and their nondescript uniforms of which... well....
Jones: They looked like ragtags.
Pryor: It was comical to us particularly because the Marine
detachment on the USS Augusta was the sharpest bunch
of Marines that I have ever seen anywhere.
Everything we wore was tailor-made, and our brass
buttons had been taken from us and had been gold-
plated. We had gold-plated buttons on our blue
uniforms. So we were a picked crew. I was 6'2" tall,
and I was one of the "feather merchants" on there; I
was down in the 2nd Squad of the 2nd Platoon. We
were organized into two platoons aboard the USS
Augusta, and, gosh, these other guys up there were
6'3" and 6'4". Really, 6'4" would have been about
the maximum height of any of our people in those
days.11
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/13/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.